PARLIAMENT
OPENING OF SESSION THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 A Gazette Extraordinary issued on Tuesday fixed the opening of the next session of Parliament for 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, August 29. There is some interest in the form which the Proclamation calling Parliament together takes. It reads as follows: — Galway, Governor-General. A Proclamation. To the Legislative Councillors of the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Members elected to serve in the House of Representatives of the said Dominion, summoned and called to a Meeting of the General Assembly of the said Dominion, at the City of Wellington, on the twenty-fifth day of the month of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirtyfive, to have been commenced and held, and to every of you: Greeting.
Whereas the Meeting of the General Assembly stands prorogued to the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five: Nevertheless, for certain causes and considerations I have thought fit further to prorogue the same to Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of the month of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-live, so that neither you nor any of you, on the said twenty-fifth day of July, at the City of Wellington, are to be held constrained to appear; commanding and by the tenor of these presents enjoining you and each of you, and all others in this behalf interested, that on Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of the month of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, personally you be and appear for the Despatch of Business at half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, in the Parliament Houses, situate in Bowen street, in the City of Wellington, there to take into consideration the state and welfare of the said Dominion of New Zealand and therein to do as may seem necessary. Given under the hand of his Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 20th day of, July, 1935. E. A. Ransom. God Save the King!
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 10
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329PARLIAMENT Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 10
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